The Living Nightmare

[Intro]
Shadows crowd the ceiling
Breathing in my room
Clock hands claw the silence
Night sharp as a wound
[Verse 1]
I wake
But I keep on falling
Pinned to this poisoned sky
Walls melt into twisted faces
Every prayer comes back as a cry
[Pre-Chorus]
My heartbeat runs like thunder
But my body turns to stone
I reach
But the air is iron
And I am not alone (not alone)
[Chorus]
In the living nightmare
I’m screaming with my eyes still closed
Chains of sleep around me
I feel every phantom blow
In the living nightmare
I’m fighting shadows I can’t see
If I don’t wake up by sunrise
Will the dark wake up as me?
[Verse 2]
Footsteps on the breaking staircase
Right beside my bed
Cold breath crawling down my backbone
Fingers in my head
[Pre-Chorus]
A thousand dead reflections
Stare back from the window’s glass
They whisper all my secrets
Turn my future into my past (into my past)
[Chorus]
In the living nightmare
I’m screaming with my eyes still closed
Chains of sleep around me
I feel every phantom blow
In the living nightmare
I’m fighting shadows I can’t see
If I don’t wake up by sunrise
Will the dark wake up as me?
[Bridge]
[Strings swell
Tempo drops]
Blade of dawn cuts through the curtains
I see a spark
A silver line
If fear is forged from all my failures
I’ll raise their ruins to the sky (hey!)
I tear through the tar-black silence
Rip the mask off of my fear
Every horror
Every whisper
Bows before the will in here
[Chorus]
In the living nightmare
I turn and set the night on fire
Break these frozen shackles
Rise on wings of burning wire
In the living nightmare
I crown the terror as my own
If I don’t wake up by sunrise
I’ll build a kingdom from this unknown
[Outro]
[Violins race with guitars]
Eyes open
Heart still pounding
Ashes on the bedroom floor
The living nightmare’s watching
But it runs when I roar (when I roar)

metal, Blazing power metal ballad with speed-metal drums, twin guitars and soaring male vocals; verses ride galloping riffs under eerie string stabs, chorus explodes with wide-open chords and symphonic violin harmonies. Bridge drops to half-time with cinematic strings and choir pads, then a shred solo races back into a final, higher-key chorus., ballad, power metal, speed metal